This is an upstream bug.  Basically screen doesn't sufficiently
translate the backspace key.  It does in some cases but not all, but
expects ^H always, which is what confuses things.  

A link to a bug report for RedHat is reproduced below

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=152474
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